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Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Dec 9 00:08:44 CET 2013
On 2013-12-08 at 22:51:20 +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> On 2013-12-08 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 07:36:26PM +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > > On 2013-12-06 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:01:44PM +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > typographic outputs comparable with Adobe InDesign, but with no
> > > > > costs. While
> > > >
> > > > TeX predates InDesign by 30 years (not counting prototype
> > > > versions of TeX), so it is the other way around.
> > >
> > > In this particular case I meant availability of microtypography
> > > features like protrusion/expansion.
> >
> > Even that was introduced in PDFTeX which was released long before
> > InDesign that were first released in 2002.
>
> When I compare InDesign and LuaTeX, I compare the CURRENT feature
> set. It may seem unfair, but who cares the history...
>
> InDesign is currently de facto standard in professional typesetting
> - it offers excellent typography, support for Unicode, Open Type
> features, color management, produces PDFs compatible with various
> standards - all this in a handy GUI.
Well, I recently had to repair broken PDF files created by InDesign.
LuaTeX doesn't create invalid PDF.
Regards,
Reinhard
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